Reform in the Gilded Age (College Board AP® US History): Flashcards

It promoted innovation and competition, encouraged economic growth, and gave greater market efficiency driven by supply and demand.

It brought greater financial inequality, the rise of monopolies, and exploited workers.

The Social Gospel was a Christian movement that supported helping those in need, stressing social responsibility and charitable organizations.

They wanted the Church to address poverty, child labor, and poor working conditions.

Jacob Riis was a journalist who drew attention to the harsh living conditions of the poor, especially in New York City tenements.

Jacob Riis's stories and photographs of appalling conditions in How the Other Half Lives (1890) helped bring public attention to the need for reform.

Florence Kelley was a social reformer who worked to improve working conditions, especially for women and children, and helped develop factory regulation laws.

Kelley advocated child labor laws, a maximum ten-hour workday, and state minimum wages.

Prohibition is the elimination of drinking alcohol.

False.

The WCTU believed alcohol was destroying families and communities, contributing to domestic violence, crime, and poverty.